I keep my trash in bins, responsibly put it out every week, it goes to a land fill and recycler, the fact that any week raccoons or crows might come along and dump my trash all over the street doesn't make me want to just say heck with it I'll just dump my trash in the street to begin with.

This idea is so American lol. “Let’s just take all of our trash, and push it somewhere else!” It’ll be some other planet’s problem.

Kind of like a big stellar RAID array? With parity.

You may also have to consider the orbital planes of the planets. Now I really haven’t looked up anything deep about the Trappist system, but it may be like ours where planets orbit on similar planes, but not the same one. So while each orbital period is relatively short, it might take longer to get ones with good alignment between us and their star. Again, that’s just me guessing. I don’t have time to google it right now

I for one have super massive black goals, but to reach his own, especially as universal evolution is concerned.

90% of space trash isn't large enough to have to worry about not burning up and it'll pollute less than making the energy required to send something to Venus.

There's an OP's mom joke in there somewhere.

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Rarely and still makes more sense than sending it to venus.

Don't need to be, just physics. We need to be able to get the nuke engines into space. The only launch vehicles available are chemical rockets.

Except it doesn’t always all burn up and it pollutes when it burns…

Until some country gets mad and starts shooting satellites.

I think you might want to learn a bit more about physics. It's much easier and cheaper to burn up space trash in the atmosphere.

I am not privy to all the cutting edge classified technologies, sorry

Assuming we could collect space trash, it seems easier to bring it back to earth and recycle it. I understand that most people think everything we see is ours to despoil, but I have a problem with the thought of using another planet as a dumping ground.

In the early days of space flight, flights were few and space was big so we designed things to just either burn up in the atmosphere on reentry or be left in space as junk- saves effort and money. But that doesn't scale up, and now we actually are hampered by space junk. We're designing vehicles to be more reusable and recoverable, and so it would be better to look towards a future where we don't generate space junk to begin with.

To be fair, we don't fully understand how gravity functions at galactic scales

I ask questions like this to see how close minded a community is. I got my answer. Thanks.

And how do we get those into space?

We are supposedly developing nuclear fission propulsion engines to power our ships.

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So what's your alternative?

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